Cave monitoring
Guest Editors
Nenad Buzjak, University of Zagreb, Croatia Aurel Persoiu, Emil Racovita Institute of Speleology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Christos Pennos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GreeceCave Monitoring: Special Issue
The integrated monitoring of karst systems (MIKS) model, applied in karst studies in Bulgaria
Petar Stefanov, Dilyana Stefanova, and Peter Nojarov
- Theoretical-methodological platform ProKARSTerra for karst studies
- Integrated Monitoring of Karst Systems (MIKS) model
- MIKS comprises 6 types of monitoring
- Speleo-MIKS model is used for monitoring in cave systems
- Many problems in organizing and maintaining MIKS are described in this study
Designing a Cave Air Monitoring System: Guide and feedback from 15 years of monitoring the Cussac Cave (France)
Nicolas Peyraube, Jessica D. Villanueva, Fabien Naessens, Roland Lastennet, Sylvain Mateo, and Alain Denis
- Providing a flow chart of question to be answered when creating a monitoring system
- Providing feedback from 15 years of monitoring in a cave
- Examples of long time series of CO2 monitoring
- Example of sort time event influence on cave air
Microclimatic conditions in Shulgan-Tash Cave (Southern Ural, Russia): Implications for the preservation of Eastern Europe’s largest Paleolithic art collection
Olga Chervyatsova, Rayan Akhmedyanovb, Nailya Saifullina, Ludmila Kuzmina, Mihael Kotov, and Yuri Dublyansky
- Shulgan-Tash Cave exhibits distinct winter and summer ventilation regimes
- CO₂ concentrations: atmospheric in Lower Level, elevated in summer in Upper Level
- Elevated CO₂ levels in the Upper Level result from forest cover and phreatic degassing
- Key threats to cave art include condensation and fluctuating CO₂ levels in cave air
- Rapid degassing of infiltrating water leads to calcite deposition over cave paintings
Pre-calibration of δ18O for paleoclimatic interpretations using stalagmites in Cueva Ensueño, Puerto Rico
Gabriel Enrique López Borobia, Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa, Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, and Pablo Antonio Llerandi Román
- Isotopic fractionation is studied in Cueva Ensueño to pre-calibrate stalagmite δ18O
- Seasonal isotopic fractionation is found between wet and dry months
- Hendy test on farmed carbonates suggest kinetic fractionation
- Drip water isotopes are affected by epikarst storage
- Prior calcite precipitation increases in the dry season
Protocol for assessing and managing radon gas exposure risks in caves: A case study of Altaomira and Paleolithic cave art of Northern Spain World Heritage Site
Sergio Sanchez-Moral, Javier Lario, Soledad Cuezva, Juan Carlos Cañaveras, Tamara Martín-Pozas, and Angel Fernández-Cortés
- Year-long monitoring of radon, temperature, and airflow in nine UNESCO caves, N. Spain
- Radon poses a major health hazard requiring strict management in tourist caves
- A protocol to assess radon exposure provides management tools for cave administrators
